Work in France : Representations, Meaning, Organization, and Practice

Kaplan, Steven L. (EDT); Koepp, Cynthia J. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0801416973 / ISBN 13: 9780801416972

Published by Cornell University Press, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Work in France : Representations, Meaning, Organization, and Practice
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801416973
• ISBN 13: 9780801416972
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Eighteen scholars from both sides of the Atlantic look at the question of work across three centuries of French history. Representing both younger and older generations, they move beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries in order to consider human labor as it was actually performed and to determine what it has meant to specific groups and individuals at particular historical moments.
This book proposes some fundamental revisions in the history of work which will have important implications for our understanding of social, political, economic, and cultural developments not only in France but throughout Europe.

About the Author

Steven Laurence Kaplan is Goldwin Smith Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the author of Provisioning Paris: Merchants and Millers in the Grain and Four Trade during the Eighteenth Century and of the complementary work Farewell, Revolution: Disputed Legacies, France, 1789/1989, both from Cornell.